Investment Strategies
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Don't Count Out Bonds (Yet)
By Ben WarwickAlthough the Treasury market followed energy prices lower throughout January, that correlation isn't likely to continue indefinitely. A combination of stifled inflation anxiety and solid economic growth is as good as it gets for investors. However, it should be noted that any deviation from the good news that market participants...
February 01, 2007
A Matter of StyleBy Craig Callahan, founder and president of Icon Advisers in Denver, and C. Thomas Howard, professor of finance at the Daniels College of Business, also...
February 01, 2007
Separate Accounts Capture More AssetsPMFM has caught onto a trend, or is perhaps helping cause the trend, with its emphasis on the use of separate accounts for its clients...
February 01, 2007
Investing With StyleIn a series of articles appearing in Investment Advisor (September 2005, January 2006, and February 2006), we criticized the market-cap/value-growth characteristic grid used for categorizing...
January 19, 2007
529 Tool Crosses Bordersoseph Hurley, founder of Savingforcollege.com, has announced an enhancement to the site's State Tax 529 Calculator. As they have in the past, users supply their state of residence, marital status, and the investment they intend to make in the 529 plan in dollars for the year. The calculator then demonstrates...
January 18, 2007
Getting In on IPOsThere may be nothing in the investment field that generates more passionate and varied emotion than the topic of initial public offerings (IPOs). For clients who have not been able to get into enough IPOs on their own, or who want professional management of an IPO portfolio, there is a...
January 17, 2007
Energy Outlook for 2007While S&P projects real U.S. GDP (gross domestic product) growth will slow to 2.3% in 2007 from 3.3% in 2006, the world economy looks solid. S&P Economics is calling for global GDP growth of 3.2% in 2007 vs. 3.8% in 2006, driven by growth in emerging countries, particularly China. This...
January 05, 2007
Account ConsolidationBank of America has launched a unified managed account service, called Portfolio Strategies Managed Account, that combines a separately managed accounts platform and managed mutual fund wrap account platform into one entity. The new platform is probably going to be the "fastest growing fee-based platform we have in Premier Banking...